As Griffin waved the fight off, Joshua protested for mere seconds, and then smiled and walked back to his corner, having received more than he bargained for. Ruiz jumped up and down in celebration with the raw enthusiasm and joy that can only come from proving the entire world wrong. While it will go down as one of boxing’s all-time biggest shocks, the thoroughness of the beatdown illustrates that it was not a fluke, and perhaps if there had been a more careful analysis of Ruiz’s boxing skills rather than his body composition, it might not have been considered as big of an upset as it was.
Immediately afterward, over 20,000 people—almost half of which had traveled in from the United Kingdom, according to promoter Eddie Hearn—filed out in either disbelief or disappointment, having watched a greater show than they either wanted or expected.
New York might be where you come to make a name for yourself, but the boxing ring is where you find out who you truly are. It would be best to wait until the inevitable rematch, tentatively slated for late-2019 in the UK, before making wholesale determinations about Joshua’s makeup. But for this night at least, we found out conclusively that he was not as good as Andy Ruiz Jr.
and ruiz was throwing 3 shots for every shot he threw.
